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From: mbkennel@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Matthew B. Kennel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,sci.physics
Subject: Re: TI announcement
Keywords: quantum effect transistor
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Date: 20 Jan 89 06:04:11 GMT
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In article <11462@haddock.ima.isc.com) suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti) writes:
)	The AWST (Aviation Week) Jan 16th issue had a little blurb
)about TI's announcement.  It went something like this:
)
)TEXAS INSTRUMENTS has fabricated the first quantum effect transistor.
)The device, called a bipolar resonant tunneling transistor, has active
)regions measuring 0.01-0.02 microns and offers the possibility of
)switching speeds 1,000 times faster than today's best semiconductor
)devices.

0.01-0.02 um?????  Just how _did_ they make it?


)	Stephen.

Matt Kennel
mbkennel@phoenix.princeton.edu